Project Grant SSF50018GR0003

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161), provides $100,000 to fund an international conference on Indigenous borderlands in North America and the preparation of a published volume of essays. The University of New Mexico will host the conference from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023, bringing together historians and scholars from other disciplines with Indigenous community representatives....

This federal Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), under the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian (LB21) program (CFDA 45.313), will provide $135,934 to Columbia University to convene a two-day forum for 15-20 Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) archives and special collections curators. The forum aims to enhance professional development, inclusivity, and ethical stewardship of collections in this often-overlooked part of the library and archives...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $250,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to Rutgers, The State University located in New Jersey. The Design Justice Labs project will establish an international and interdisciplinary digital network to conduct community-centered research on the use of "generative AI" for modeling human languages, communication, arts, and cultures. Key activities include: Rutgers will focus on...

The Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece will organize the 11th Annual Museum Conference December 1-3, 2021 featuring U.S. experts under a $121,470 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. Funded through the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) which supports achieving U.S. foreign policy goals through informing and influencing foreign publics, the grant will support the conference to expand relationships between the U.S. and Greece. The Benaki...

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program, totaling $307,827, will support the University of Montana in developing indigenized collections handling, decision-making, and educational programs focused on determining cultural affiliation for objects with unclear records in its anthropological collections. Specifically, the University will hire two postdoctoral fellows, a graduate research assistant, and...

This $204,476 Project Grant awarded on October 17, 2024 by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs under the Environmental and Scientific Partnerships and Programs (CFDA 19.017) aims to inform the Mpumalanga community in South Africa about the utility of fly ash and dispel the stigma associated with coal and coal by-product waste. The grant recipient is the University of Johannesburg, a South African non-profit research and...

The Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs awarded $228,000 under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) to support travel for U.S. researchers to attend the Regional PIURN Conference in July 2023 in New Zealand. Hosted by the University of the South Pacific and Cook Islands Research Center, the conference aims to inform and influence foreign publics through cultural exchange and expanding relationships between researchers. The funding will allow U.S. participants...

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will support the Transnational Dialogues in Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx Studies Institute. Administered by the University of Pittsburgh under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163), the $175,000 award will fund a two-week residential-hybrid program from June 6-17, 2022. The Institute aims to explore transregional, transnational, and interdisciplinary scholarship and curricula...

This federal Project Grant award of $187,638.00, provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (CFDA 84.021) program, supports a research project titled "AFRICAN KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS: HEALTH-RELATED INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS IN SOUTH AFRICA DURING APARTHEID AND BEYOND". The project, conducted by CAL State La University Auxiliary Services Inc. (UAS) in Los Angeles, CA, aims to examine the role and...

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program will support the development and launch of an interdepartmental Cultural Heritage Research, Stewardship, and Restitution Certificate at the University of California, Los Angeles Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. With $124,688 in funding over a one-year period from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024, the Cotsen Institute of...